At age 12, he creates a nuclear reactor at home with purchases via the Internet.

At the age of 12, Jackson Oswalt began developing a project. He invested between $ 8,000 and $ 10,000 to buy various parts via eBay, with which he eventually managed to create his own nuclear fusion reactor.

"The beginning of the process was simply to learn what other people had done with their fusion reactors," said Fox News, now 14, a teenager. The next step was to compile a list of what he needed and buy the components on the Internet platform, but as some did not "exactly" meet his needs, he had to adapt them. "I had to modify them to be able to do what I needed with my project," he added.

Finally, he reached his goal in a room in his home in Memphis (United States), which he had turned into a laboratory. On February 19, when he was 13, he received the 50,000 volts of electricity with which he could heat the core of the plasma reactor to combine two atoms of deuterium and merge them to produce energy. .

"After a while, it was pretty simple to understand how everything worked together," said Oswalt, adding that "all these pieces of the puzzle have come together to make a good project."

The teenager published the results of his work on the Open Source consortium Fusor Research. "For those who have not seen my recent publications, it will be a great surprise to think that I even managed to make the merger," he wrote: "I have some results that, in my opinion, are worthy. "

His father, Chris Oswalt, was surprised not to understand what his son was doing. "Being the father of someone as motivated as him for 12 months was really impressive," he said. However, beyond his enthusiasm, he constantly reminded the teenager of the dangers of working with a potentially lethal fusion reactor, exposure to high radiation levels or electrocution. at 50,000 volts.

RT.